How do I get rid of carpet beetles? My entire house is infested, I find the shed skins and larvae everywhere. I sweep daily! Now the shed skins are coming out of the heater vents! What can I do to get rid of these black carpet beetles forever?
What do you know? I now use LOTS (about a CUP )of 20 Mule Team Borax in all my clothes washing! All the tiny gnats, moths, and other insects that come in from the garden are all gone, and the clothes/linens are GREAT. Boric Acid is poison, kills insects, and must be related to Borax somehow, because it has worked for me for two months, now. I plan to sprinkle it all over my carpet paths, leave it a week, then vaccum it up before steam cleaning with an old steamer. Also I plan to toss an old flea collar into the vacuum bad if it's not full now.
How'd I know I had some kind of bug? There were tiny red peppery spots/ stains around the lid of my washer with each wash, prior to using the Borax. After using it, there have been no signs at all.
It's very simular to a flea job with a few twists. Carpet beetles may be in clothes, furniture and even some leather. You should launder everything you can. Then before you spray have the carpets steam cleaned and vacuumm the underside of as much furnishings as you can.also edges of walls with hose attachement--especially in corners and closets. Now treat as if you would for fleas.You may need to respray once more but that should do it. To see how to treat for flesa check http://pestcemetery.com/?cat=16 better to just read it rather than type out long directions. Good Luck
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Request: Eliminating Carpet Beetles
Archived on 02/01/2009
Ever since we pulled up the carpet we now have carpet beetles like crazy (they must be looking for new food sources). Is anybody able to share wisdom as to how to eradicate them?
Susan from Columbus, Ohio
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RE: Eliminating Carpet Beetles
I feel sorry for you but we got fleas, try using a fogger ie., Doom fogger that's what a friend of ours did. (05/20/2008)
